Schumacher stays on top at Barcelona

The seven-time world champion set his best lap of 1:14.119 early in the morning, as he spent much of the day focusing on long-run work for tyre supplier Bridgestone.

His only drama came at 5.30pm when he went off the track at Turn 7 and ended up in the gravel at Turn 8.

Behind Schumacher, Robert Kubica was a surprise second for BMW-Sauber as he focused on developments, tyre evaluation and set-up work for next weekend's British Grand Prix.

Kubica's teammate Nick Heidfeld was only 12th quickest, the German working on tyre and aero testing for Silverstone.

Renault duo Giancarlo Fisichella and Heikki Kovalainen were third and fourth fastest as they put their full focus into preparation work for Silverstone.

Jarno Trulli continued to put mileage on Toyota's new TF106B to end up fifth fastest, while teammate Olivier Panis brought out a red flag at 4.30pm when his car stopped on the track.

"At this test, the new car is showing potential and we have been working on finding a better balance and perfect set-up for me," said Trulli.

"The tyres we have been using are getting better as well. Of course there is still work to do and the Silverstone set-up will be much different than in Monaco, therefore we will have to wait and see how the B-car does on a high-speed track.

"Even though we have not yet tested at Silverstone this year, I think the race will be a tough fight and we are definitely going to be pushing hard to gain some points."

Honda endured another difficult day as both test drivers James Rossiter and Anthony Davidson brought out the red flag after identical accidents.

Rossiter went off the track at Turn 4 just before 10am, just touching the wall and causing very slight damage to his car. Davidson then had a carbon copy accident at 2.55pm before eventually ending up 10th fastest on the timesheets, just ahead of Rossiter.

Davidson carried out aero work for the Canadian Grand Prix, also working on tyre testing for the British Grand Prix.

The other red flag of the day was caused by Red Bull Racing's David Coulthard, whose car stopped at Turn 10 at 4.30pm.

Today's times:

Pos  Driver        Team                      Time      Laps
 1.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari              (B)  1:14.119  112
 2.  Kubica        BMW-Sauber           (M)  1:14.136  133
 3.  Fisichella    Renault              (M)  1:14.504  118
 4.  Kovalainen    Renault              (M)  1:14.505  122
 5.  Trulli        Toyota               (B)  1:15.010  104
 6.  de la Rosa    McLaren-Mercedes     (M)  1:15.122   98
 7.  Montoya       McLaren-Mercedes     (M)  1:15.177  113
 8.  Rosberg       Williams-Cosworth    (B)  1:15.229   85
 9.  Doornbos      Red Bull-Ferrari     (M)  1:15.508  102
10.  Davidson      Honda                (M)  1:15.524  139
11.  Rossiter      Honda                (M)  1:15.629  107
12.  Heidfeld      BMW-Sauber           (M)  1:15.674   80
13.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Ferrari     (M)  1:15.807  125
14.  Liuzzi        Toro Rosso-Cosworth  (M)  1:16.489  121
15.  Panis         Toyota               (B)  1:16.532   87

All Timing Unofficial